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Mariseo Musings: March 2014

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Views, people, odd stuff from Brian Byrne, Kilcullen, Ireland. Saturday, March 29, 2014. The prison books ban. I've just read about a most horrendous thing perpetrated on our next door island, which throws a country that can often claim to be the most civilised nation in the world back into the Dark Ages. Last November, Britain's Justice Secretary Chris Grayling stopped the sending of books and other necessities in parcels from families and friends to prisoners. The issue has raised discussion on whether...

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Mariseo Musings: October 2012

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Views, people, odd stuff from Brian Byrne, Kilcullen, Ireland. Friday, October 26, 2012. Keep changing the rules'. If it did nothing else, yesterday's North Kildare Chamber Annual Conference fired up a geyser of optimism in the Killashee Hotel. Against the background of the toughest financial situation faced by small and medium enterprises for decades, a stream of speakers talked up the opportunities possible, and how they might be accessed. The key theme came early, with Hugh Cooney. Was sanguine about ...

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Mariseo Musings: February 2012

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Views, people, odd stuff from Brian Byrne, Kilcullen, Ireland. Sunday, February 19, 2012. Switching off from the bitching. First, an admission. I’m a news junkie. Especially radio news and current affairs. Probably in part because I spent a decade working in the RTE newsroom as a broadcast journalist through the 1980s. And also because I’m still a journalist, and still interested in what goes on around me. When I was in Australia this time I didn’t at all miss the direct connection. I could hav...Not hea...

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Mariseo Musings: July 2012

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Views, people, odd stuff from Brian Byrne, Kilcullen, Ireland. Tuesday, July 17, 2012. A dream of eliminating famine. If you haven't ever visited Strokestown Park in Co Roscommon, make the time when you next drive that way. The plantation itself was described as one of the best examples of how a big estate should be run, back in the 1700s. But when the Famine began it became a classic example of how Irish tenant farmers found themselves at the starvation end of existence. That's partly why the National F...

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About things that interest and intrigue me. Ahboy’s big boy already blog. Azmi’s Of Cats and Cancer. Cheryl’s Get a Grip on It. Daphne’s The Places You Will Go. Dee’s Pandas Live On. Duc N Ly’s About Writing Diaries and Vietnam. Emily’s Busy World! Gette’s Standard Issue. Harvey’s Family Stories. Kak Teh’s Choc-A-Blog Blog. Lydia Teh’s Life’s Like That. Max’s blog blog. My brother’s blog (seriously). NekoMama7’s Wake Up and Smell the ‘Boo. Obiter Dictum’s Passing Through. Pak Adib’s The Reader.

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Mariseo Musings: July 2013

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Views, people, odd stuff from Brian Byrne, Kilcullen, Ireland. Monday, July 15, 2013. The Seanad Debates, an Introduction. Well, the campaign to decide the future of Seanad Eireann has got under way. But at least we're going to be asked to make the decision. I know that if Enda Kenny had his preferences, he'd just lock the doors and cut off the money stream. The Seanad doesn't have much power over legislation produced by the lower house. It has the right to review it, suggest amendments which need no...

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Mariseo Musings: May 2011

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Views, people, odd stuff from Brian Byrne, Kilcullen, Ireland. Sunday, May 8, 2011. Ads that make me worry. Obviously, given what I do, I am naturally inclined towards the unfettered dissemination of information. That people have the right to know, and on the basis of knowing can make up their own minds, about all sorts of things. But I have for some time been perturbed by a series of 'public information' advertisements which run on RTE Radio. I believe they are designed to manipulate our fears. What bot...

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Mariseo Musings: The prison books ban

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Views, people, odd stuff from Brian Byrne, Kilcullen, Ireland. Saturday, March 29, 2014. The prison books ban. I've just read about a most horrendous thing perpetrated on our next door island, which throws a country that can often claim to be the most civilised nation in the world back into the Dark Ages. Last November, Britain's Justice Secretary Chris Grayling stopped the sending of books and other necessities in parcels from families and friends to prisoners. The issue has raised discussion on whether...

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Mariseo Musings: October 2011

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Views, people, odd stuff from Brian Byrne, Kilcullen, Ireland. Thursday, October 6, 2011. We're not done for yet. Ireland ranks 12th out of 82 countries in a new Global Creativity Index which puts Sweden at the top, followed by the United States, Finland, Denmark and Australia. The Index was created at the University of Toronto as a more modern measurement of competitiveness and prosperity. The technological aspects included are R&D investment, researchers, and patents per capita. On  talen...An ebook co...